Back in 2008 we had hopes that communities would take back big banking - we were sampling 2000 of muhammad yunus books from fall 2007; and we got a front seat ahead of subprime debacles on both sides of the atlantic
a 9 year old started an extraordinary 4 months -apparently before top people knew what was coming) jan 2008 with arguably a smarter question that the other 1000 new yorkers attending barnes and noble book launch; by march we were trying to engage student collaboration cafes with an 8 minute demo s cabled on lehman university network; by accident back in london i was having coffee with yunus the day british banks had been decared dead in the morning headlines; yunus suddenly started asking me questions about gordon briwn - was he scottist=h etc; then he got up from the table and chekk=ily said I am off to donwing street now- see the 3 youtubes
Where do Financial Literacy Curricula begin
- about 100 developing countries connect around a 2nd grade curricula uo started in an indian orphanage
alfatoun -ironically around 2007 there was a good chance that soros would have helped columbia university become epicemtre of what my hero fazle abed spent 50 years connecting round nation building by women applying the first sdgs 5 - ie banking to owning value chains if food health to empower women and design lifelong education; but it son became clear that neither columbia nor new york were up for a total transparent accounting and the netherlands became the headquarters of alfatoun, brac international, also more recently gca - global climate adaptation as well as 2 royal family members being un special envoys on fintech and on general literacy at schools
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